What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which… — Francis Ouimet Copy Share Image
I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is… — Fred Melamed Copy Share Image
How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the Tea Parties are standing for is constitutional principle. It's not fundamentally about tax rates or whether to have a consumption… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of… — Douglas B. Reeves Copy Share Image
The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of… — John A. Stormer Copy Share Image
I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions.… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The agnostic has a very curious notion of religion. He is convinced that a man who says 'I believe in God' should… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road;… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals… — Newton D. Baker Copy Share Image
Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
In terms of personalities - I don't care about the personalities, I want leadership that's in favor of my principles: free markets,… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
It's the vision of the composer that we have to determine, and not the absolute mathematical adherence of the score. In my… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States. How can you say this is part of U.S.… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
That's not for me to decide, that's for the voters to decide and many of them are saying, this slavish adherence to… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“start with a baseline of how often a habit or practice atrophies or breaks down, and then you start stacking up advantages… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a nation honored,… — Jon Lord Copy Share Image
English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities. — Elspeth Huxley Copy Share Image
Great leaders, and great organizations are built on strong fundamentals. On a no-compromise adherence to a stated value system. Adherence by all… — Prakah Iyer Copy Share Image
No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and… — William Howard Schuman Copy Share Image
Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
